New Faces in Political Methodology (I? Senior? Classic?)

New Faces in Political Methodology (I? Senior? Classic?) was held on May 3, 2008, and featured ...

Delia Bailey (California Institute of Technology [PhD]; Washington University in St. Louis [Postdoctoral Fellow]).

"A Bayesian Shrinkage Estimator for Ordinal Treatment Variables," coauthored with Michael Alvarez and Jonathan Katz. This paper was published (as "An Empirical Bayes Approach to Estimating Ordinal Treatment Effects.") in Political Analysis.

Delia is currently Vice President of Analytics for YouGov and Vice President of Product Development at Crunch.io.

Andrew Eggers (Harvard University). "MPs for Sale? Estimating the Returns to Office in the British House of Commons," co-authored with Jens Hainmueller. This paper was published (as "MPs for Sale? Returns to Office in Postwar British Politics") in the American Political Science Review.

Andy received his PhD in 2010 and served from 2011-14 as an Assistant Professor of Government at the London School of Economics. He is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Politics and International Relations at the University of Oxford, a Professorial Fellow of Nuffield College and Director of the Oxford Q-Step Centre.

Melanie Goodrich (New York University).

"A Coding Methodology for Open-Ended Survey Responses."

Melanie received her PhD in 2009 and was most recently a Lead Scientist at Booz Allen Hamilton from 2009-2016, a Regulatory Specialist with Nasdaq from 2016-2017, and is currently Senior Study Director for Westat.

Benjamin Lauderdale (Princeton University).

"Bayesian Social Learning: A Model of Citizen Learning with Implications for Modeling Survey Response." This paper was published (as "Does Inattention to Political Debate Explain the Polarization Gap between the U.S. Congress and Public?") in Public Opinion Quarterly.

Ben received his PhD in 2011 and is Professor of Political Science at University College London.

Eduardo Leoni (Columbia University).

"The Political Consequences of Malapportionment."

Eduardo received his PhD in 2008 and is currently Advisor in Brazil's Ministry of Economy.

Aya Kachi (University of Illinois).

"Government Formation and Dissolution in Parliamentary Democracies: An Empirical Analysis Using Strategic Survival Models," co-authored with Jude Hays. This paper was published (as "Interdependent Duration Models in Political Science") as a chapter in Quantitative Research in Political Science, in the SAGE Library of Political Science.

Aya received her PhD in 2012 and served as a postdoctoral fellow at the Center for Comparative and International Studies at ETH-Zurich.  She is currently an Assistant Professor of Political Economy of Energy Policy at the University of Basel.

Jun Xiang (University of Rochester).

"Modeling Unobservable Political-Military Relevance: A Split-Population Binary Choice Model with an Application to the Trade Conflict Debate." This paper was published (as "Relevance as a Latent Variable in Dyadic Analysis of Conflict") in the Journal of Politics.

Jun received his PhD in 2011 and is currently an Associate Professor of Economics and Global Affairs at Rutgers University Newark.